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This
has been a week
of very special occasions
with three of the most widely
known men in our industry
celebrating days they will never
forget. For one, Ammar Kubba,
it was his
wedding day last Saturday
(August 20) that I told you about
earlier in the week. For the other
two it was the birth of new sons!
One
day after Ammar's wedding - on
Sunday, August 21, MediaOptions.com
Founder Andrew Rosener and
his lovely wife Anna welcomed
their new son - Lou Atlas Rosener
- to the world!
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Veteran
domain broker Andrew Rosener, Founder
of MediaOptions.com, with his
new son
Lou Atlas Rosener, just
moments after wife Anna
delivered the healthy baby
boy.
Just
two days after the Rosener family
celebrated their new arrival, on
Tuesday, August 23, Jay Westerdal -
the founder of multiple industry
companies including Name
Intelligence Inc., DomainTools.com,
the Domain Roundtable
conference and most recently new
gTLD registry operator Top
Level Spectrum - and his
wife Icy experienced the same
joy when their new son, Thor
Harcourt Erik Westerdal, made
his grand entrance.
Jay
Westerdal and wife Icy welcome
their new son,
Thor Harcourt Erik Westerdal, on
Tuesday, August 23.
When
Andrew Rosener got the good news
about Jay's new son he quickly took
notice of something the two baby
boys had in common. With Thor
and Atlas a part of their names
Andrew quipped, "The world just
got two Greek Gods!" Jay
said Atlas was actually one of the
names he and Icy also considered but
Thor has a history in his family as
the name of a great
great great grandfather.
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Jay
added, "I have
always valued unique names. Just
like domains, they help
set a person apart from
everyone else. For
inspiration we looked at the
family tree and thankfully
we had lot of great
grandfathers in our family
with cool names! The most
popular baby boy name in
2015 was Noah with
19,511 people. However only
118 babies were named last
year were Thor. I
personally had two
middle names and we decide
Thor would also have two
middle names. His other
middle names are other great
grandfathers as well. A
unique name stands out,
my wife "Icy"
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her
great grandmother
and her whole life people
can talk about her and know
who they are talking about
without a last name. It is
hard to be in the domain
business and not have a
strong appreciation for
unique names!," Jay
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Our
congratulations to Andrew and
Anna and Jay and Icy,
on the arrival of their new family
members - and to Ammar on his
marriage to the beautiful Josephine
Madriz. We all love the domain
business but it is still
trumped by bigger things in life,
something we were happy to be
reminded of on three separate
occasions in the space of just 72 hours
this week!
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